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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team..
It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.
If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded.
Meanwhile, you can introduce the basic concept of Aussie rules through a game like lineball, a lead-up game introduced in the basketball section of chapter 10, but with the ball handballed, not thrown.
An obvious way in which football has changed over the last decade or two has been in the use of handballing.
On only 8 occasions during the entire match did players who had marked the ball decide not to walk slowly and purposefully back and take their kick, but instead play on by handballing to a team mate.
Now six months into the role I have come to learn that the boss’s idea of empowering and delegating is actually handballing or passing off tasks that they actually should be performing themselves.
The shortage has taken time to develop and despite the government trying to handball' the problem to the states, it has happened on its watch.
I am finding that she's a difficult patient in more ways than one! for that reason I'll handball her off to our senior podiatrist if symptoms persist.
Use hand ball when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hand ball means (uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team..
Common synonyms include European handball, Olympic handball, team handball, sport involving bouncing a ball off a wall.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.
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